Iraqâs electoral commission repeated a call yesterday for the countryâs political groups to remove from their tickets former 90 members of Saddam Husseinâs Baath party so that it can go ahead and issue final election results next week. They include two leading members of former Shiite Prime Minister Iyad Allawiâs secular Iraqi National List. The executive director of de-Baathification commission, Ali Al-Lami, told The Associated Press that Allawiâs list had the largest number in the group of 90 candidates that must be removed from tickets that ran in the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. He said they included Adnan Al-Janabi and Rasem Al-Awadi, the director said. Allawiâs list had the largest number with 15. They were followed by the Saleh Al-Mutlaqâs Sunni Arab National Dialogue with five, the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance with four and the main Sunni Arab Accordance Front with two.
The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq has not said how many of the 90 people were likely to be elected when final results are released in early January. âWe informed all the election lists about this decision after we received it from the court, and some of these lists are working on it. They have to present us their lists with their replacements before we declare the results,â Adel Al-Lami, a senior member of the IECI told The AP. |